After giving birth to her daughter, artist and art teacher Sarah Sweet decided to get more serious about doing good for the future of the planet. She launched The Scrappy Elephant, a creative reuse art supply store in the winter of 2020, following an inspiring trip to Nashville’s Turnip Green (an organization with a similar mission). Since January 2021, the Palmyra shop has diverted more than 12,000 pounds of art and craft supplies from landfills—and inspired countless art projects with Sweet’s never-know-what-you’ll-find inventory. Bonus: Sweet just opened a Charlottesville shop, too.
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